Winner: “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson: “an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.”

Finalists: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” by Nathan Englander and “The Snow Child,” by Eowyn Ivey.

History

Winner: “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam,” by Fredrik Logevall: “a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.”

Finalists: “The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675,” by Bernard Bailyn and “Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History,” by John Fabian Witt.

Biography

Winner: “The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo,” by Tom Reiss: “a compelling story of a forgotten swashbuckling hero of mixed race whose bold exploits were captured by his son, Alexander Dumas, in famous 19th century novels.”

Finalists: “Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece,” by Michael Gorra and “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy,” by David Nasaw.

Winner: “Stag’s Leap,” by Sharon Olds, “a book of unflinching poems on the author’s divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.”

Finalists: “Collected Poems,” by the late Jack Gilbert and “The Abundance of Nothing,” by Bruce Weigl.

General Nonfiction

Winner: “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America,” by Gilbert King: “a richly detailed chronicle of racial injustice in the Florida town of Groveland in 1949, involving four black men falsely accused of rape and drawing a civil rights crusader, and eventual Supreme Court justice, into the legal battle.”

Finalists: “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” by Katherine Boo and “The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature,” by David George Haskell.